IDNO

T.150913.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 217. New Guinea. 35mm. (colour)." [Poignant's manuscript]
"34, 35, 36. ditto [women and decorated water bamboos for ceremony at Kerowagi, Chimbu.]." [Poignant's typed text]

A group of women from Kerowagi, gathering for a ceremony with decorated water vessels made of bamboo. Poignant describes the ceremony as a Sing Sing to celebrate the completion of a new house [KK 04/08/2022].

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Chimbu; Kerowagi

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

pre August 1969

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.148696.RPT - T.152693.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1021/.

T.150905.RPT - T.150927.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/95.